Open Forum: an invitation

Our Next Meeting will be held at St. Ethelburga’s on Thursday, August 21, 7pm.

For this meeting we are inviting artists to put themselves forward to give a ten-minute presentation. Presentations should include examples of your work and say something about the relationship between your arts practice and your spiritual practice. We will have a few artists primed to get the ball rolling, including storyteller Sarah Clive, visual artist Abdul Ghaffur Doherty (one of the founders of NIA) and Iraqi physicist and artist Mohammed Sanduk.

Artists are welcome working in any medium and from any spiritual background or tradition. Audio playback and data projection will be available. Following presentations and discussion, time will be set aside for reflection and meditation.

If you’d like to take part or just want to know more, we’d love to hear from you: nia0001@googlemail.com

Open Forum: Thurs 21st Aug, 7pm at St Ethelburga’s

cost: free

location: St Ethelburga’s Centre is five minutes walk of both Bank and Liverpool Street stations (Zone 1). You can walk over the bridge from London Bridge Station in about 15 minutes. view a location map here

e-flyer: August 2008

 

First Meeting

The Network of Islamic Artists presents a series of meetings to explore the role of faith and spirituality in arts practice.

Meetings will involve presentations from artists drawn from a number of disciplines (including visual art, written word, sound & music, and film) and different backgrounds and faiths. Following the presentations, a panel-led discussion and then open questions will lead to time for reflection and meditation.

The meetings aim to establish a forum for arts practitioners on a spiritual path to present work, and to discuss and exchange ideas; to establish an intellectual platform dedicated to exploring the relationship between arts practice, faith and spirituality in the contemporary setting.

Two related ideas underpin this initiative: firstly, the importance of art as a medium through which notions of difference can be explored in order build bridges of understanding and appreciation across cultural and religious divides in Britain today. And secondly, recognition of the dynamic, if sometimes conflicting, role that the self plays as the medium through which both arts practice and spiritual practice are realised.

First meeting:

Wed 4th June, 7pm at St Ethelburga’s

Our first speakers are Baluji Shrivastav (world renowned Hindustani classical musician) and Abdul Mateen Sansom ( UK based Muslim sound artist and musician)

cost: free

location: St Ethelburga’s Centre is five minutes walk of both Bank and Liverpool Street stations (Zone 1). You can walk over the bridge from London Bridge Station in about 15 minutes. view a location map here

e-flyer: June 2008